The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
A new production of Parsifal at San Francisco Opera stirred something deep inside Michael Anthonio about how music soothes the soul
The 25th anniversary revival of Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is most moving in its quietest moments
Adela Zaharia and Amartuvshin Enkhbat shine brightly in San Francisco Opera’s opening night Rigoletto.
Pride weekend events at San Francisco Opera and Festival Opera are fabulous starts to the Bay Area summer
A muted production challenges a talented cast in San Francisco Opera’s Idomeneo
A plodding La bohème in San Francisco never quite takes off
The San Francisco Opera announces its 2025-26 season.
The plight of two women, each from different backgrounds, was on full display in San Francisco opera houses last week.
Sparks flew when the San Francisco Opera opened their new production of Richard Wagner’s monumental Tristan und Isolde on Saturday, October 19th, at the War Memorial Opera House.
“[W]omen are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are not secondary players in human destiny, and every society has always known that.” — Margaret Atwood, February 2017
Overall, this was a superb achievement and a thrilling season opener for the San Francisco Opera.
Michael Anthonio crunches the numbers on San Francisco Opera’s recent seasons and goes straight to the top to General Director Matthew Shilvock for a look at where SF Opera has been and where it’s headed
Final opera of the season. Little-known opera. A revival. So, you can probably skip it, right?
“The distance between dreams and reality is called action.” – Brian Tracy
The score for Innocence was menacing yet comforting, and, essentially, violent and peaceful at the same time
The first of the major American opera houses to announce its 2024-25 season did so today
A perfect escape for a city laden with recent layoffs and job cuts coming into Holiday season
“What would you do if the world you knew was suddenly gone and you were thrown into the deepest abyss stripped of all humanity? Would you fight to remember who you were?”
All in all, this was truly a superb achievement for San Francisco Opera and an auspicious first chapter in the Wagner opera journey with Eun Sun Kim.
Bay Area composer Mason Bates’s and librettist Mark Campbell’s contemporary opera about the life of the tech mogul Steve Jobs came home “to the place where it all began” in spectacular fashion
Power struggles, prejudice, feuds and revenge abound in San Francisco at the moment.
The ailing and grief-stricken Pinkerton was shown to give his son a diary about his time in Nagasaki, and as Trouble read it, he (and the audience) was taken back in time as the story came to life, similar to the use of Pensieve in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4).
On June 16, San Francisco Opera concluded their excellent Centennial Season with a heartfelt 100th Anniversary Concert, featuring a starry cast, three conductors (including current and former Music Directors) and the SF Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
